Hillary Clinton covered a wide swath of issues — many dealing
specifically with rural economic development, opportunities for Iowa
small towns — in a 23-minute interview with the Daily Times Herald
Sunday afternoon.

Hillary Clinton says the next president of the United States must
understand modern America, the changing nature of families, strong role
of women, and use the Oval Office to bridge what she called an
achievement gap so all young people toe the same starting line early in
school.

Five days before he was to start college, Fred Maahs’ world turned
upside down. Off the Delaware coast in 1980, on the last day of summer
vacation, the 18-year-old took a dive from his family’s boat into an
unseen sandbar barely a foot below the surface, sustaining injuries that
paralyzed him from the chest down.